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Thanks for the reply. Being the inexperienced Javascripter that I am, I didn't know you couldn't retrieve an element's style properties using the same syntax that you use for manipulating them.

So, after much trial and error (mostly error), I have everything doing exactly what I want it to do (in Netscape 7, IE 7, and Firefox 2, anyway).

If anyone cares to take a look at the URL below, I'd be interested in feedback on the methods used (i.e. markup, CSS, Javascript, use of PNGs), what can be done better, etc. The appearance and effect are what I want, but there are probably better/more efficient means to this end, especially since I had to keep hacking at it to get around all the errors I was getting . Don't worry about core.js, as that is unmodified from the original source (the Sitepoint book "Simply Javascript"). And to make things simple, I put the CSS and the rest of the Javascript in the document itself instead of linking to external docs. I also limited the "slides" to 2 and cut the time each one is displayed in half, to minimize your wait.